The Inner City Rail Road will be featured @ this local Home Show: 
We have two loops with TE’s. We run a circus train and anything the layout members bring from 1:29 freight to 1:20 logging, you never know. Thomas has been known to showup! Some train time with all this snow in New England 6" to 12" on it’s way!
http://www.homeshownet.com/
Sean, congrats… A few years ago, Our club got involved in doing the Home Shows in St Louis… The first couple of years, we created a railroad into the landscapers designs, mostly in the spring, as this was the biggest home show… In the fall, we set up the clubs module layout…
John Carroll owns the layout and we get to run trains as long as we help setup or brake down. The shows promoter can see the attendance increase when we are there! so they like us there. Some times there are one or two who do not like to hear sound all day!! Still a good time! 
Dan Pierce demonstrates the Zimo sytem with some great effects!
Always enjoyed doing the Children’s Hosp. with John! The Home Shows are almost as much fun!
Sean -See you there,
Phil
Pictures would be nice…
If I remember my camera!
Andy Clarke said:
Sean, congrats… A few years ago, Our club got involved in doing the Home Shows in St Louis… The first couple of years, we created a railroad into the landscapers designs, mostly in the spring, as this was the biggest home show… In the fall, we set up the clubs module layout…
Yeah, you didn’t mention the gal falling on the rocks of the pond display, the club member jumping in the pond to save an engine or the kids putting plastic worms on the track to watch the trains derail. Yep, great time, good memories.
Ric Golding said:
Andy Clarke said:
Sean, congrats… A few years ago, Our club got involved in doing the Home Shows in St Louis… The first couple of years, we created a railroad into the landscapers designs, mostly in the spring, as this was the biggest home show… In the fall, we set up the clubs module layout…
Yeah, you didn’t mention the gal falling on the rocks of the pond display, the club member jumping in the pond to save an engine or the kids putting plastic worms on the track to watch the trains derail. Yep, great time, good memories.
Ric, I was trying to let them something to look forward to… Didn’t want to ruin all the surprises…
Yep, it was a surprise when the drunk lady was yelling at Harold, the wet club member, and the fun was watching him stand there dripping wet, taking it. By the time she was done, I was convinced the whole thing was his fault. The worm situation happened after all the club members had used there pass to see the Home Show and decided we didn’t need that many people watching the layout and went on home early. Yeah, walking out of the Convention Center at 10pm into the ghetto, and convincing your wife that going underground into the subway was safer than walking to a parking lot, was always great fun. Boy, do we miss those events. At least at train shows your dealing with train people. Wasn’t that last Home Show on St. Patrick’s Day Weekend? I’m talking cheap drunks.
Nick
Some photo’s of the layout.
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I know shameless plug for Train-Li ( need new sigh, new name)
Didn’t get much time to shoot any crowd pics , too busy!
Good Pictures Sean, Thanks for posting.
Nicky
“…I know shameless plug for Train-Li ( need new sigh, new name) …”
ahhhhh just weather it well ! And put it further back like a retired billboard that just hasn’t been switched out ! till I chkd the web I thought you were implying they had also closed down recently… the “…sigh” kind of ‘threw’ me lol
The regional club used to do the annual garden show before i joined … but quit that when on the last day very quiet … they had slowly started packing up and a show rep gave them the gears and demanded they stay completely set up till closing even though there was no public activity … keep in mind the club had volunteered their presence to enhance the show and a bit of publicity ! After that they never did another home (or) garden show.
